Source: NCDA&CS, 3/25/21



As Hurricane Isaias brushed the Carolina coast in early August, a tornado spun off in the outer bands, touching down in Bertie County in the middle of the night. At about 1:15 a.m. on August 4, the tornado started spinning on the ground, traveling northwest for ten miles and widening as much as six football fields along the path. When the tornado dissipated about eleven minutes later, destruction was left behind.

Two people were killed. More than a dozen others were hurt. The worst of the damage was found along Morning Road, near Woodard Road, southeast of Windsor. The National Weather Service (NWS) estimated the tornado’s wind reached 140 to 145 miles per hour – an EF-3 on the five-category scale. According to the preliminary report from NWS, “the tornado completely destroyed several mobile homes and stick built houses in this area. It flattened seven single-wide and double-wide mobile homes, leaving unrecognizable bits of debris. The fatalities and injuries occurred in the vicinity of morning road.”

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